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Do you know what we used to call Spanish Villas ( real name is "something in chinese terrace" Tak Shing Terrace?) its a left-turn-off up hill, on the beach road just after Scorpio Office Supply shop. (Hi Ted if you are reading this) Might be part of Tai Yuen village, dunno.
There are some dustbins just up the hill where I saw a big fat cobra stalking a cat. The stupid cat (how unusual) wouldn't move no matter how much I danced about and yelled, lets face it I was not going too close, even for a fellow cat.
Anyway Mr. Jow came out of his house (the little guy that never stops grinning that does something with the dustbins/refuse). Of course he shouted at me and called me Marlow Jai "monkey boy" and Die Bei "big nose", which he always called me because I always called him Beer Jow. And of course several things I didn't understand which included CheeSing Gwailo which I did.
Ho Ma Beer Jow, Yum Sing. Ha Ha Ha.
When he came over to see what I was pointing at he stopped grinning for the first time ever, and looked most concerned. Then he shouted Wah! Something Something! and ran away to his house. He came out of the house pushing his wife and stood behind her (and me) holding her in place and pointing at the snake and jibbering loudly. Then they had an argument and his wife pulled loose and ran off, closely followed by Jibbering Jow.
It was apparently her cat.
While they were having a fight in the garden over a long handled gardeng tool, I threw a stone at the snake and the cat ran away.
Jow bought me a bottle of Tsing Tau later for that and called me "Big Nose" several times for good measure, so it was ok.
I looked the snake up later in John Fox's or Clive Theobald's book of HK snakes and it was some sort of black and gray cobra, quite rare, but poisonous. I've seen loads of snakes on Lamma, mostly harmless ones causing women jams on Tai Peng Hill, but that was the biggest and most potentially dangerous.
One can only assume Mr Jow believed his wife to be immune to poisonous snake bites, and therefore decided she would make a good first line of defence in case the snake decided he looked tastier than the cat.
'Way to go' Beer Jow you big hero, lol
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